On the 25th of October of 1415, Henry V of England defeated a French army five times larger and better equipped at the battle of Azincourt. His victory, the greatest of an English army in European soil, is a formidable example of courage and determination. But, what else explains Henry´s triumph at Azincourt? Henry was not born to be King. His father, the Earl of Derby and Northampton, was but a distant claimant to the throne when Henry was born in 1386. The tempestuous politics of medieval England allowed the Earl to become King in 1399. But, Henry was more dead than alive when an arrow penetrated six inches into his face while fighting in Wales. The Prince, only sixteen at the time, should have perished from his wound if not for a revolutionary device which removed the arrow head after twenty days of excruciating pain. Although scarred for life, Henry was crowned at Westminster Abbey in March of 1413. In 1415, France and England were once again at war. In August, Henry lande
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